Tag: silent

"Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

I have always been restless and prone to being busy. I love my work and have for so long confused who I am with what I do that most days I find myself doing it from dawn until late into the night. Consequently, it has taken me years to learn the true value of rest. In this way, I am also a perfect product of a culture that encourages rushing, celebrates the frenzy of the chase and equates resting with laziness. It has taken me decades to understand that rest is not the opposite of effort, rather it is the source, the nourishment, the energetic food for all that we aspire to accomplish.

Parent: "How was your day?"
Teen: "Good."

"What did you do today?"
"Nothing."

Does that sound like a recent conversation you had with your teen? Parents desperately want to communicate with their kids, but few know how to get a tight-lipped teen to open up. The result is a dead-end "chat" that leaves both parent and child feeling disconnected.

How do I get my spouse to open up on issues concerning our relationship? We never resolve any problems that come up and end up not talking for a month about what happened. It's become a revolving door of one problem after another and it all leads to silence. Is there a way to approach this to actually start a healthy dialogue.

Though certainly not true in all cases, there is some validity to jokes and stereotypes… or else they wouldn’t ring true.

Nearly half of all heart attacks may be silent, occurring without any symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath and cold sweats, a U.S. study suggests.

Silent heart attacks, discovered during exams by cardiologists, were more common in men, researchers found. (Symptomatic heart attacks are more common in men, too.)

But in the ensuing years, women with silent heart attacks were 58 percent more likely to die compared to women with no heart attacks, whereas the mortality rate for men with a silent heart attack was only 23 percent higher than for men without a heart attack.